The Sages said: ‘[For] three sins a person is punished (lit., ‘it is collected from a person’) in this world, and he has no share… Read More »Chapter 7, Law 3(b) – Cynicism: The Joy of Inexistence, Part II
Rabbi Shimon said, three people who ate at the same table and did not speak words of Torah are as if they had eaten from… Read More »Chapter 3, Mishna 4(a): Body or Soul? Part I
This week’s Torah reading begins the oration by our teacher Moshe during the final months of his life. In this oration, he reviews the 40… Read More »Geography Lessons
Korah Alai Moed… He summoned an assembly against me … (Eicha 1:15) Somebody asked me this week why Tisha B’Av is called a Moed, like… Read More »A Great Day
All of you approached me and said, “Let us send men ahead of us, and let them spy out the Land.”[2] Much of the beginning… Read More »Haste Makes Chaos
This weeks parsha sheet is dedicated to the memory of my sister-in-law’s mother, l’iluy nishmas Sussya Leah bas Yehuda Leib, one of the k’doshos of… Read More »The Way to a Person’s Soul is Through His Dignity
“…we would have been like Sodom, resembled Gemorrah…” (Yeshaya 1:9) The three Shabbasos that intervene between the seventeenth of Tammuz and the ninth of Av… Read More »Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
The Story “Hi Mom!” said Aryeh, holding the phone to his ear, “I just got home from school. My friend Koby came with me. Is… Read More »Bishul Akum
After forty long years in the desert, the Jewish people stood poised to conquer the Holy Land. But there were complications. Two of their most… Read More »Payment in Full
This week’s portion is the first from the book of Devarim, or Deuteronomy. The dictionary definition of Deuteronomy is “fifth book of the [Bible], derived… Read More »Flight to Freedom